Senate Bill 0608

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    Florida Senate - 1999                                   SB 608

    By the Committee on Fiscal Policy





    301-180B-99

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act re-creating the Inland Protection Trust

  3         Fund of the Department of Environmental

  4         Protection without modification; carrying

  5         forward current balances and continuing current

  6         sources and uses thereof; providing an

  7         effective date.

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  9         WHEREAS, the Legislature wishes to extend the life of

10  the Inland Protection Trust Fund, which is otherwise scheduled

11  to be terminated pursuant to constitutional mandate, and

12         WHEREAS, the Legislature has reviewed the Inland

13  Protection Trust Fund before its scheduled termination date

14  and has found that it continues to meet an important public

15  purpose, and

16         WHEREAS, the Legislature finds that the existing public

17  policy concerning the Inland Protection Trust Fund sets

18  adequate parameters for its use, NOW, THEREFORE,

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20  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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22         Section 1.  (1)  The Inland Protection Trust Fund

23  within the Department of Environmental Protection, FLAIR

24  number 37-2-212, which is to be terminated pursuant to Section

25  19(f), Article III of the State Constitution on November 4,

26  2000, is re-created.

27         (2)  All current balances of the trust fund are carried

28  forward, and all current sources and uses of the trust fund

29  are continued.

30         Section 2.  This act shall take effect November 4,

31  2000.

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    Florida Senate - 1999                                   SB 608
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  3    Re-creates the Inland Protection Trust Fund within the
      Department of Environmental Protection.
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